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Orsk (Russian: Орск) is the second largest city in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, located on the steppe about 100 kilometers (62 mi) southeast of the southern tip of the Ural Mountains. The city straddles the Ural River .
The Orsk Dam collapsed in the evening of 5 April, causing evacuations. [2] Officials in the downstream city of Orsk said that the situation was rapidly worsening, and the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called it the country’s worst natural disaster in the last 80 years. [6]
The dam broke in the city of Orsk in the Orenburg region, less than 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) north of the border on Friday night, according to Orsk mayor Vasily Kozupitsa. By Saturday morning ...
A dam burst in the Russian Urals mountain city of Orsk on Friday and an evacuation is underway, local emergency services said. State news agency TASS quoted the emergencies ministry as saying that ...
Orenburg's main airport is the Orenburg Tsentralny Airport, [23] located about 25 kilometers (16 mi) east of the city, on the Orsk destination, and used to be the headquarters of now defunct Orenair. [23] City public transport includes bus, trolleybus and also marshrutkas (fixed-route cabs).
Orsk, less than 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) north of the border with Kazakhstan, suffered the brunt of the floods which caused a dam to break on Friday, according to Orsk mayor Vasily Kozupitsa.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has evacuated around 2,000 people from their homes in the Russian city of Orsk, Russian officials said on Saturday, a day after rising waters in the Ural river flooded ...
Orenburg Oblast [a] is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), mainly located in Eastern Europe.Its administrative center is the city of Orenburg.From 1938 to 1957, it bore the name Chkalov Oblast [b] in honor of Valery Chkalov.